ProfKFH
@profkfh.bsky.social
Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
This 🔥 review of “Queen of Versailles” which managed to be a NYT critic’s pick. 🫣
Evidently NYT is as good as picking musicals as it is in picking Mayors
Evidently NYT is as good as picking musicals as it is in picking Mayors
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This 🔥 review of “Queen of Versailles” which managed to be a NYT critic’s pick. 🫣
Evidently NYT is as good as picking musicals as it is in picking Mayors
Evidently NYT is as good as picking musicals as it is in picking Mayors
Next time — and there had better not be a next time— don’t treat an election like you are owed a seat by virtue of genealogy & skin color. This photo from early voting shows the people you paid didn’t even want you.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Next time — and there had better not be a next time— don’t treat an election like you are owed a seat by virtue of genealogy & skin color. This photo from early voting shows the people you paid didn’t even want you.
Start your bets now. I have to go out again in a few 🤣🤣🤣🤣
October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Start your bets now. I have to go out again in a few 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please share!!! The American Friends of Jamaica has just announced $1M matching fund- a 💵 for 💵 match for donations going through their channels theafj.org
The Jamaican Diaspora at work. #HurricaneMelissa
The Jamaican Diaspora at work. #HurricaneMelissa
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share!!! The American Friends of Jamaica has just announced $1M matching fund- a 💵 for 💵 match for donations going through their channels theafj.org
The Jamaican Diaspora at work. #HurricaneMelissa
The Jamaican Diaspora at work. #HurricaneMelissa
“A little over a month ago, my building superintendent called, telling me to dismantle the garden because of building violation threats to the city”
WaPo OpEd by a Harlem friend over the loss of her fire escape garden and her tomato plant “Mama T”
WaPo OpEd by a Harlem friend over the loss of her fire escape garden and her tomato plant “Mama T”
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“A little over a month ago, my building superintendent called, telling me to dismantle the garden because of building violation threats to the city”
WaPo OpEd by a Harlem friend over the loss of her fire escape garden and her tomato plant “Mama T”
WaPo OpEd by a Harlem friend over the loss of her fire escape garden and her tomato plant “Mama T”
Happy Banned Books Week! If you are looking for resources for a class or a reading group, check out the “Banned Books: Why Young People Need Them” project with short talks on 8 of the most frequently banned books, including a talk by me on *The Bluest Eye* Proud to stand up for Morrison!!! #Booksky
October 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Happy Banned Books Week! If you are looking for resources for a class or a reading group, check out the “Banned Books: Why Young People Need Them” project with short talks on 8 of the most frequently banned books, including a talk by me on *The Bluest Eye* Proud to stand up for Morrison!!! #Booksky
I am embarrassed I didn’t know this DuBois framing;
“what DuBois called "The Sisyphus Syndrome", where each time we roll the huge boulder of soi disant US democracy up the towering mountain of US hypocrisy & resistance, the "Gods" roll it back down on our heads.” From anthology Black Fire
“what DuBois called "The Sisyphus Syndrome", where each time we roll the huge boulder of soi disant US democracy up the towering mountain of US hypocrisy & resistance, the "Gods" roll it back down on our heads.” From anthology Black Fire
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I am embarrassed I didn’t know this DuBois framing;
“what DuBois called "The Sisyphus Syndrome", where each time we roll the huge boulder of soi disant US democracy up the towering mountain of US hypocrisy & resistance, the "Gods" roll it back down on our heads.” From anthology Black Fire
“what DuBois called "The Sisyphus Syndrome", where each time we roll the huge boulder of soi disant US democracy up the towering mountain of US hypocrisy & resistance, the "Gods" roll it back down on our heads.” From anthology Black Fire
This category title couldn’t be more ironic “Living Better” indeed
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October 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This category title couldn’t be more ironic “Living Better” indeed
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I will! believe it or not i haven’t had time to take good photos! and do the alt-text. But I’ll do it soon!
October 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I will! believe it or not i haven’t had time to take good photos! and do the alt-text. But I’ll do it soon!
Not the face of a man happy with his choices
October 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Not the face of a man happy with his choices
October 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
wild eyed liberal here thinking it’s not a liberal. Many of them are built to dominate the skyline. This was a feature of my DC life for a decade i0.wp.com/timesandseas...
September 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
wild eyed liberal here thinking it’s not a liberal. Many of them are built to dominate the skyline. This was a feature of my DC life for a decade i0.wp.com/timesandseas...
Sorry to hear this. I would not have finished graduate school w/o Dr. Richardson. I was facing challenges that seemed insurmountable (IYKYK). My Mom (who worked 4 him) told me to meet w/him before I dropped out. #Baltimore #RaceB4Race #quilts
www.lewisnwatsonfuneralhome.com/obituary/dr-.... 2/
www.lewisnwatsonfuneralhome.com/obituary/dr-.... 2/
September 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sorry to hear this. I would not have finished graduate school w/o Dr. Richardson. I was facing challenges that seemed insurmountable (IYKYK). My Mom (who worked 4 him) told me to meet w/him before I dropped out. #Baltimore #RaceB4Race #quilts
www.lewisnwatsonfuneralhome.com/obituary/dr-.... 2/
www.lewisnwatsonfuneralhome.com/obituary/dr-.... 2/
“While individuals across the political spectrum should condemn political violence, we shouldn't overlook the virulent racism white extremists often espouse in this country or accept prejudice as legitimate political discourse. “ Dr. Allison Wiltz
www.levelman.com/why-sanitizi...
www.levelman.com/why-sanitizi...
September 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“While individuals across the political spectrum should condemn political violence, we shouldn't overlook the virulent racism white extremists often espouse in this country or accept prejudice as legitimate political discourse. “ Dr. Allison Wiltz
www.levelman.com/why-sanitizi...
www.levelman.com/why-sanitizi...
Not going to speak ill of the dead and his ill-fitting suits, but it’s worth pointing out Kirk and his ilk (along with the manosphere) almost literally despise empathy. But I’ll feel bad for his kids even though he clearly wanted them to grow up
to watch POC be executed.
to watch POC be executed.
September 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Not going to speak ill of the dead and his ill-fitting suits, but it’s worth pointing out Kirk and his ilk (along with the manosphere) almost literally despise empathy. But I’ll feel bad for his kids even though he clearly wanted them to grow up
to watch POC be executed.
to watch POC be executed.
Doggone it. saw this too late. will catch it and get Mom on it too. She organized her guild to make a Thurgood Marshall quilt
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Doggone it. saw this too late. will catch it and get Mom on it too. She organized her guild to make a Thurgood Marshall quilt
Doctors I trust more than RFK, Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Doctors I trust more than RFK, Jr.
Kyle Grady’s “‘The Miseducation of Irie Jones’: Representation and Identification in the
Shakespeare Classroom” contending with what I call “public rituals of negation” in my *The Sweet Taste of Empire* #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
Shakespeare Classroom” contending with what I call “public rituals of negation” in my *The Sweet Taste of Empire* #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
![Scholarship in Premodern Critical Race Studies - as opposed to studies of "race" —must begin with complicity. To rest on demarcations between Past and present constructed from above, to accept an enslaver-based historiography-one that emphasizes speed and inevitability—s to use early modern race scholarship to forget our citizenship, to consign ourselves to the larger regimes of depersonalization and civil death that shape our worlds today. Instead of fetishizing fluidity as the primary difference in early modern racialism-as an inaccurate hard line between early modern racialisms and our own, we might instead embrace Dayan's refusal of sequentiality and innocence, while at the same time considering healing as the focus of our work. Dayan's first chapter tells the story of the first-century healer, Appolo-nius of Tyana, who cures a boy of a rabid dog's bite (one of the many "white dogs" evoked by her title) by finding the dog and having him lick the boy's wound in a public ritual, a process that cures both the boy and the dog. In Dayan's hands, this is not just a story of healing as mimesis ("the way out of harm... is through the thing that caused the harm" [37]) but one of transformation and "plenitude": "The dog is renewed, indeed graced with sen-tience, gratitude, and recognition: not penalized but personalized, for life not for death" (38). Most of us are not trained to think of scholarship as public ritual; however, when we encounter questions of race in our conferences, dissertation committees, and classrooms, we need to ask whether we are performing public rituals of negation or of healing, of penalization or of personalization.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hqklsosnm7fhf4buq275kgbe/bafkreidjmkhm5rnrad7iscc5vjkriimleqnyu2mj4nnxme2kkp6tzz6xie@jpeg)
September 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Kyle Grady’s “‘The Miseducation of Irie Jones’: Representation and Identification in the
Shakespeare Classroom” contending with what I call “public rituals of negation” in my *The Sweet Taste of Empire* #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
Shakespeare Classroom” contending with what I call “public rituals of negation” in my *The Sweet Taste of Empire* #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace
HEY, HEY my book came y’all!! Props to my neighbor who always has greenery in the windowsill 😂 #RaceBeforeRace
#ShakeRace
#ShakeRace
September 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
HEY, HEY my book came y’all!! Props to my neighbor who always has greenery in the windowsill 😂 #RaceBeforeRace
#ShakeRace
#ShakeRace
If it’s just a hat, then why did you steal it? If this statement is real, Piotr Szczerek is an even bigger turd than first appeared. A Jurassic level POS. Literally took a gift from a child and now saying he did it because he could & we all need to calm down before he sues.
September 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If it’s just a hat, then why did you steal it? If this statement is real, Piotr Szczerek is an even bigger turd than first appeared. A Jurassic level POS. Literally took a gift from a child and now saying he did it because he could & we all need to calm down before he sues.
Central to my imminent book, Sweet Taste of Empire, is showing that the inability to look at the actual brutality of slavery is baked into the very beginnings of English slavery in the Caribbean & is 1 of the reasons Black Women are peculiarly absent in 17th century narratives
#RaceB4Race
#ShakeRace
#RaceB4Race
#ShakeRace
August 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Central to my imminent book, Sweet Taste of Empire, is showing that the inability to look at the actual brutality of slavery is baked into the very beginnings of English slavery in the Caribbean & is 1 of the reasons Black Women are peculiarly absent in 17th century narratives
#RaceB4Race
#ShakeRace
#RaceB4Race
#ShakeRace
OK, their clickbait titles are hilarious. That "secret language habit" of speaking Slovak. 🤣. And I want to know if the Orange One is rotting from the head down like a fish.
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
OK, their clickbait titles are hilarious. That "secret language habit" of speaking Slovak. 🤣. And I want to know if the Orange One is rotting from the head down like a fish.
So much of this resonates with my second book experience. I could have written a quicker book on early modern whiteness, but wanted to stretch myself, then I decided I needed a new writing voice/practice and then the “OMG, I’ve taken so long, this better be amazing” set in
July 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So much of this resonates with my second book experience. I could have written a quicker book on early modern whiteness, but wanted to stretch myself, then I decided I needed a new writing voice/practice and then the “OMG, I’ve taken so long, this better be amazing” set in
